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(No Model.) G. w. ROSE? BARREL TRUCK. No. 349,665. Patented Sept. 21, 1886.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE W. ROSE, OF PATERSON, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO RICHARD FIELDING, OF SAME PLACE.

BARR\EL-TRUCK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 349,665, dated September 21, 1886.

Application filed April 29, 1886. Serial No. 200,609. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE W. Rose, of Paterson, in the county of Passaic and State of New Jersey. have invented a new and useful Improvement in Trucks, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide a new and improved truck for the purpose of carrying bales, boxes, or barrels securely, so that they will not shift or fall ofi', a device simple in construction, strong, and durable, accomplishing said object.

The invention consists in the construction and combination of parts and of the device hereinafter described and set forth, and pointedv out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, Figure 1 is a perspective view of my truck. Fig. 2 is a part sectional plan of the same, showing ring with eye and hook in engagement with the chine of a barrel. Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the same, showing a barrel on truck with hook en- Fig. 4 is a sectional plan of same, showing a loop, hoop, or hand surrounding barrel, instead of hooks. Fig. 5 is a part side elevation with pointed hook engaged with a square box or case.

My truck is simple in construction, and in the drawings like letters of reference indicate like parts in all the figures.

The truck consists of the side bars, a, and handles a, so constructed that the handles a are thicker than the side bars, a-that is, if the handles a are round their diameter is greater than is the thickness of the side bars, a, which may be oblong or oval, as shown in Fig. 2, in which a represents a side bar, a, dotted circle, the handle. The ring B fits loosely around the side bar, a, so as to slide or move freely up and down the same between the handles a and the first cross-bar, b. The ring Bis provided with the pin-pointed 0r chisel -pointed hook D, which is bent around the ring B, forming the eye 0. The top of the side bars, a, may be provided with a groove, in which the eye 0 may move. I

Z) are the cross-bars; f, the wheels or castersj d, the axletree. The cross-bars b are secured to side bars bv means of pins or screws 1), or are riveted, The curved bar or toe-piece c is formed, as shown in Fig. 3, so as to grip a barrel, bale, or box in hook fashion.

By reference to Figs. 1, 2, and 3 it will be seen that the ring B cannot pass over the handles a, and moves or slides along the side bars, a, as far as the first cross-bar, 1).

Another method-to secure the safe handling of goods on a truck is shown in Fig. 4, where a loop or hoop, II, is employed instead of the rings, eyes, and hooks B G D. In that case the rings B are held in eyes formed by bond ing the ends of the loop or hoop II around said rings B.

F is the chine of a barrel; F, the barrel.

In Fig. 5, G represents a box or bale, and D the operation of the pointed hook D; a, the

side bar, and B the ring in eye G. The toepiece a being insinuated under the box or barrel F, which is then tipped back so as to rest against the crossbars b, which form the bed of the truck, the ringsBare moved down the side bars, a, and the hooks D are engaged with the chine F of the barrel F, and keep it from falling oft or shifting.

As said trucks are indispensable to warehouses and express-offices and business hous(s in general, and the need of something inthe nature of my invention has long been 'felt, I claim that its simplicity of construction, cheapness, and durability, together with the facility with which it accomplishes the object, alike recommend it as an improvement on'anything yet used or invented for the purpose.

I do not wish to confine myself to a truck of anyspecial form or size, nor to one made of any particular material, but propose to adopt any size, shape, or material suitable. In the truck shown and described the handles, side bars, and toe-piece, rings, and eye-hooks, made substantially as described and set forth, I claim to be the essential parts of my inven tion. The wheels may be made to revolve on the axle-spindle, or may be fixed to androtate with the axle. In that case hearings will be provided for the axle and secured to the side bars in any suitable manner. In case the wheels revolve on the axle-spindle they may be kept in place by a serewnut on the end of spindle, or the end of the spindle may be riveted to keep the wheel in place, as shown in Fig. 1, by d and d W Vith this description of inyinvention, what 1 bars, and toe-picce of a truck, of movable or to I claim is-- sliding rings on said side bars, provided with 1. Ina truck, the combination, with the side a hook and eye, substantially as described, and bars and handles, of a link or ring provided for the purpose specified. 5 with an eye-hook which is movable up and down said side bars for the purpose of engag- GEORGE ROSE ing and securely holding on truck any box, Witnesses: bale, or barrel, substantially as set forth. S. HUMERLE,

2. The combination, with the handles, side E. V. STUART, 

